Decent analysis but you are minimizing the death of approximately 500 kids. I could be wrong but I was under the impression that side effects from vaccines occur soon after administering the vaccine. The vaccine has been administered world wide and appears to be safe and effective. You scared homie?
So are you opposed to a harm reduction strategy because of all of the politically motivated speculation and conjecture going around?
The myocarditis (in the mRNA) and blood clot (in the non mRNA vaccines) are showing up as far as a month out. In fact, at this point, I'm kind of shocked that there's hasn't been an official recommendation from pediatricians that boys who receive the second dose of Pfizer sit out exercising (such as club soccer) for a week. There there's the weird one impacting women's cycles. Then there are bunch of other ones (such as GB paralysis) which are very rare but also typical of other vaccinations. So "safe" is somewhat in the beholder.
"effective" is also a definitional issue. Effective in reducing death and hospitalization and long COVID....absolutely....but for kids that's already on the floor so what's the point. Effective in reducing transmission....that one is more elusive because it's becoming apparent that the breakthrough infections are really high and the latest in the Lancet puts the effectiveness date at around 200 days now.
My impression the vast majority of people rushing out to vaccinate their kids are just scared of the virus. The vast majority of people digging in their heels are scared of the vaccine. But really all we are doing here is throwing darts.